The greatest unsolved theorem in mathematics is why some people are better at it than others. — Adrian Mathesis Copy Share Image
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy we call mathematics. — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial. — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way… — Annika Sorenstam Copy Share Image
Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
Proof, one might say, does not merely shew that it is like this, but: how it is like this. It shows how… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Those who think 'Science is Measurement' should search Darwin's works for numbers and equations. — David H. Hubel Copy Share Image
“I look at the hundreds of algebra problems facing me in the next three days. And here I thought I’d figured out… — Elizabeth Eulberg Copy Share Image
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. — Rudolph A. Marcus Copy Share Image
I always like to make explicit the fact that before I went off not too long ago to fight in the trenches,… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“A significant difference between Pacioli’s book and Treviso Arithmetic is that Pacioli dealt with negative numbers. The concept of negative numbers was… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
“He opened the door and headed into the kitchen. The kitchen table was a mess, done up in Early American Homework. Thomas’s… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Russell’s paradox threatened to deal a far more serious blow to set theory than earlier ideological objections. The problem was this: consider… — Ananyo Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
“Speaking of Newton but also commenting more broadly on education and the Enlightenment: "I have seen a professor of mathematics only because… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Mathematical analysis is as extensive as nature itself; it defines all perceptible relations, measures times, spaces, forces, temperatures:;; this difficult science is… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
Brandon is the only man and person in the world to complete Math modules 0-9 in 1 semester at Cumberland County College.… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
“STOP APPLYING PATCHES. RECODE YOURSELF NOW. 24 Dec National Mathematics Day” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
I agree with Warren to keep it simple and not use higher mathematics in your analysis. — Walter Schloss Copy Share Image
Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances. — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects. — David Crane Copy Share Image
I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't know whether guys are more promiscuous or just bigger liars. — Jennifer Tour Chayes Copy Share Image
I gotta be honest with you...I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them. — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
